2.) The pay in China for ESL & TEFL teachers is the lowest in East Asia compared to Japan, Korea, and Singapore. The difference can be as much as 120% even after the variance of cost of living is factored in.

If you have asthma, sensitive skin, or alergies DO NOT COME TO CHINA. They do not even sell Benadryl here and when I had to buy it online it cost me $89 for 12 tablets because $40 was shipping and import tax charges.

Yes, the winters in China are horrific but the summers are not so bad. But most of the women working here are always complaining about what the dry air does to their skin. But there are bigger problems facing China foreign English teachers as you can see in this Global Times newspaper article http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/981575.shtml

Wow. What a wake up call. I think people with asthma should not even be allowed to step off an airplane in China!

But there is a bigger problem about working in China imo - in any job. There are so many scams related to job applicants and the people running the frauds use so mnay different names to advertise like this guy, who is a Russian (proof that the China scams are not all run by Chinese) http://www.realscam.com/search.php?searchid=508615. The guy operates the same China job fraud under five deifferent names! (that I know of).

So its sort of like they are fishing for victims with many different fishing poles and angles. It was an accident that I made this discovery when I realized I was talking to the same voice on the phone from two "different" companies, with 2 different phone numbers!